4871 examples of sport in sentences

This sense in our sex is called in the heavens the sport of wisdom with its love, and of love with its wisdom."

Use effects this; because love and wisdom are delighted with each other, and as it were sport together like little children; and as they grow up, they enter into genial conjunction, which is effected by a kind of betrothing, nuptial solemnity, marriage, and propagation, and this with continual variety to eternity.

This will the wife notices; but she does not conjoin herself with it, except pretendedly or in the way of sport.

We assure you, moreover, that it was the sport of betting that sought out the subject, and the nature of that subject cannot, we presume, be prejudicial either to your honour or your feelings.

It contains, I believe, a kind of introduction to her, and may perhaps lead to some sport.

She was of a fanciful and imaginative disposition, and delighted to place herself in such colours and circumstances as might confirm their most ridiculous suspicions, which she considered only as matter of sport.

Till now, what I have called life was nothing but its preludeamusement, sport to kill the time with.

It is probable the black also may be induced to sport from that steady character it has hitherto maintained; there are but few domesticated plants but which (like animals) depart, in some way or other, from their native caste.

But is this misery, Mr. Rambler, never to cease; have I spent my life in study only to become the sport of the ignorant, and debarred myself from all the common enjoyments of youth to collect ideas which must sleep in silence, and form opinions which I must not divulge?

"If custom did not require that a ship should wear the colours of some people, mine should always sport those of the fair.

The storms come up, they know not when or how: but they are not the sport of a blind chance; they are not the victims of the wrath of God.

"The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he sport and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops his flowery food, And licks the hand" Bless us, is that saddle of mutton gone home to Mrs. Simpson's?

What think you of a little innocent shop-lifting, in sport? MARIAN And by that contrivance to be taken before a magistrate?

I could endure all this, thinking my husband Meant it in sport MRS.

SELBY That ceremony past, we give the day To unabated sport.

"To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimicks.

I gave a graphic account of the argumentstough ones they were toothat Miss Augusta had with the overseer on religion, and many other subjects; of one jackeroo who gabbed never-endingly about his great relations at home; another who incessantly clattered about spurs, whips, horses, and sport; and the third oneJoe Archerwho talked literature and trash with me.

In a moment it came upon me, this spirit of sport, this desire to excel, this hatred of the fox.

Ah, it is a great feeling, this feeling of sport, my friends, this desire to trample the fox under the hoofs of your horse.

And I say to you that this sport is a wonderful thingfull of interest as well as madness.

To know that I had beaten the English at their own sport.

A gallant deed in war or in sport will always warm their hearts.

Returning one day from one of these expeditions, the shikarry encountered the Viceroy, who, full of courteous solicitude for his guests' enjoyment, asked: "Well, what sort of sport has Lordhad?"

EDSCHMID, KASIMIR. Sport um Gagaly.

Unsatisfied with satiating their avarice and walking the common path of wickedness, those inhuman wretches, like to Satan himself, made mischief their sport, cruelty their delight, and the ruin and murder of their fellow men their constant employment.

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